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EDWARD J. \VATSON AND HENRY LANG, OF ALBANY, NEYV YORK; SAID WATSONASSIGNOR TO SAID LANG.

ASH-SIFTER.

LUIPZEJCIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,197, datedAugust 5, 1884.

Application filed November 23, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it ntcty concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD J. Unison and HENRY LANG, both of the cityand county of Albany, in the State of New York, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Ash-Sifters, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to improvements in that class of ash-Sifters inwhich, by being provided with rockers, the operation of sifting iseffected by imparting a rocking motion to the ease in which the sieve iscontained; and the obj ect of ourimproveinents is to provide means forretaining the case in a fixed position, so that it may be utilized as atable or other useful. article when not in use for the purpose ofsifting. We attain this object by means of the construction illustratedin the accompanying drawings, which form part of this speci fication,and in which- Figure l is a perspective view of our ashsifter with thecover removed and resting on its rockers; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectionof the ash-sifter standing on its adjustable legs, and Fig. 3 a detacheddetail showing a mode of securing the adjustable legs in a verticalposition.

As shown in the drawings, A is the box of the si fter, made in arectangular form, and provided on two of its opposite sides with therockers B; C, a detachable sieve fitted into the upper part of the boxA, and projecting above the upper edge of said box, so as to form a rimfor receiving the cover D, which fits over said rim and upon the upperedge of the box A, to form a close joint that will prevent the escape ofdust from the interior of the sifter;

E, adjustable legs, pivoted, as at e, to the four corners of the box Ain such manner that they can be extended horizontally therefrom, asshown in Fig. 1, or be fixed in a vertical posi' sition, as shown inFig. 2, where they will serve to support the box in a fixed position; F,sliding bolts attached to the bottom of the box A, and adapted to engagein suitable openings in the legs E, so as to secure the latter in avertical position.

The ashes are placed in the sieve C, after which the cover D is fixed inplace over the sieve, and the legs being extended, as shown in Fig. 1,an oscillatory motion is imparted to the sifter on its rockers B, and bysaid motion the ashes and coal are moved about in the sieve until theashes are entirelyscreened from the coal, and by reason of close joiningof the L N cover to the box this operation can be performed in any roomof a dwelling without producing any objectionable quantity of dust

